Mahdia Marine Cemetery
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Mahdia Maritime Cemetery in Tunisia is a burial site in the city of Mahdia where thousands of centuries-old tombs have been distributed without order. They are located between the Ottoman fortress of Bordj el Kebir and the old port of the city built by the Fatimids and supposedly used by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians on the rocks of , defended by a chain. In 1087 the Pisans and Genoese landed at this place.[1][2]
Notable burials[]
- Mohamed Akkari, Tunisian actor
References[]
- ^ "Cementiri marí de Mahdia", Viquipèdia, l'enciclopèdia lliure (in Catalan), 2019-12-27, retrieved 2020-04-21
- ^ GiuliaBlocal (2017-01-03). "Mahdia cemetery: the graveyard by the sea in Tunisia". BLOCAL blog. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
Categories:
- Religious buildings and structures in Tunis
- Cemeteries in Tunisia
- 13th-century establishments in Africa
- Cemetery stubs
- Tunisian building and structure stubs